Supplement 2008-2010 (no. 48) to the White-Kauffmann-Le Minor scheme

This supplement (no. 48) of the White-Kauffmann-Le Minor scheme reports on the characterization of 63 new Salmonella serovars and 25 new variants of previously described Salmonella serovars recognized by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Salmonella between 2008 and 2010. Forty-four new serovars were assigned to Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica, 12 to subspecies salamae, two to subspecies arizonae, two to subspecies diarizonae and three to subspecies houtenae. All these new serovars or new variants are described with their multilocus sequence type. (C) 2014 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.